"Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches" by Edmund Burke is a political pamphlet by the Irish politician. Burke was an Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to London, served as a Member of Parliament for many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party. The subject is the nepotism of King George III and the influence of the Court on the House of Commons